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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Sat Sep 21, 2019, 06:00 PM Sep 2019

Trump now fanning a conspiracy theory about the whistleblower

Trump is fanning a conspiracy theory that the whistleblower was illegally spying on the president — and that the IG just shrugged this off to treat the complaint as urgent and credible.

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Predictable:

“I didn’t do it.”

“If I did it, it was OK.”

“If I did it it and it wasn’t OK, the bigger crime is how you found out.”
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Trump now fanning a conspiracy theory about the whistleblower (Original Post) kpete Sep 2019 OP
tRump, deception, endless lies and conspiracies. This country looks like RKP5637 Sep 2019 #1
I wish you wouldn't call him a "master" of anything. He's incompetent at everything. tclambert Sep 2019 #18
Yep!!! Fixed it!!! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2019 #21
Well, that sounds a little desperate... kentuck Sep 2019 #2
With this dolt is office justgamma Sep 2019 #3
Surely some of them are scratching their heads MuseRider Sep 2019 #4
And the idiot president wasn't aware that listening in is one of sinkingfeeling Sep 2019 #5
That's exactly what I thought, too. Talitha Sep 2019 #16
I darn sure hope someone is checking on traitor trump. Hoyt Sep 2019 #6
YEP That's why they always want to wait 10 days before the hearing. bluestarone Sep 2019 #7
Trump is a sick man. madaboutharry Sep 2019 #8
This is a stab in the back of both Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress. kentuck Sep 2019 #9
If US Intelligence suspects that the President is a traitor or a fool, they damned well BETTER Blue_true Sep 2019 #10
I think Stephen Miller is the script writer for this. trof Sep 2019 #11
The constant third person reference to himself is bizarre. Attack mode; all he really knows. Evolve Dammit Sep 2019 #12
My President is BHDem53 Sep 2019 #13
How many people are inside his head? Delmette2.0 Sep 2019 #14
Yeah - it's really creepy when he does that. Talitha Sep 2019 #17
Then we would need a 48 hour psych hold for him. Delmette2.0 Sep 2019 #20
His Words Don't Match His Actions HiloHatti Sep 2019 #15
this article from last year: orleans Sep 2019 #19
has he reached the stage of blaming Obama and Hillary, yet? Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2019 #22

RKP5637

(67,109 posts)
1. tRump, deception, endless lies and conspiracies. This country looks like
Sat Sep 21, 2019, 06:08 PM
Sep 2019

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a bunch of damn fools with tRump as president.

tclambert

(11,087 posts)
18. I wish you wouldn't call him a "master" of anything. He's incompetent at everything.
Sat Sep 21, 2019, 09:09 PM
Sep 2019

He lies constantly. But he gets caught in his lies constantly. He believes in loads of conspiracies because he's so gullible and too stupid to recognize how foolish they sound.

He's not good at manipulating public perception, either. Look at his terrible approval ratings. He's not a criminal mastermind. Everybody knows he has committed many, many crimes. Loyal Republicans protect him and make excuses for him because they don't want to admit how morally bankrupt their team has become. Many of them have obstructed justice to protect their brand, also.

Once he leaves office, they will catch a worse case of amnesia about Trump than they did about George W. Bush. Once he goes to prison, Trump's current defenders will claim they "never really knew what he was up to" and all they did was "sometimes get coffee for him."

MuseRider

(34,111 posts)
4. Surely some of them are scratching their heads
Sat Sep 21, 2019, 06:24 PM
Sep 2019

and wondering why every little thing AND big things are dealt with by this creep the same way. There have to be some who were/are parents who have heard this line of "not me" more than once but not more than a few times before they did not even believe their own kid.

I mean, really? Every single thing has an excuse that is essentially the same excuse and this one, like all the others will soon by followed by *blah blah blah* Democrat and "your favorite president." If they are not gagging over all of this by now we are a lost cause. All the smart people have spent all their time with "bless your heart" and head shaking and tisking rather than smacking them upside the head and calling attention to the insane crap they believe. Too many years, too much stupid.

sinkingfeeling

(51,457 posts)
5. And the idiot president wasn't aware that listening in is one of
Sat Sep 21, 2019, 06:37 PM
Sep 2019

those things intelligence agencies do?

bluestarone

(16,959 posts)
7. YEP That's why they always want to wait 10 days before the hearing.
Sat Sep 21, 2019, 06:53 PM
Sep 2019

Need time to get there lying story together. Can't wait for them to get found guilty, and lose everything they own.

kentuck

(111,098 posts)
9. This is a stab in the back of both Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress.
Sat Sep 21, 2019, 07:26 PM
Sep 2019

And they both know it.

This was a direct challenge to the law created by Congress on how to handle a whistle blower claim. It was a law long-respected by both Parties.

With the DNI giving the information to the DOJ, it was against the law.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
10. If US Intelligence suspects that the President is a traitor or a fool, they damned well BETTER
Sat Sep 21, 2019, 07:28 PM
Sep 2019

listen in on conversations between that person and foreigners.

trof

(54,256 posts)
11. I think Stephen Miller is the script writer for this.
Sat Sep 21, 2019, 07:55 PM
Sep 2019

How does a human being become so twisted?
It's beyond me.

Evolve Dammit

(16,736 posts)
12. The constant third person reference to himself is bizarre. Attack mode; all he really knows.
Sat Sep 21, 2019, 08:50 PM
Sep 2019

A very damaged person. If only it were confined to him and his immediate family and not the entire world.

Talitha

(6,593 posts)
17. Yeah - it's really creepy when he does that.
Sat Sep 21, 2019, 09:09 PM
Sep 2019

Next thing you know, he'll start saying "We are not amused".

 

HiloHatti

(79 posts)
15. His Words Don't Match His Actions
Sat Sep 21, 2019, 09:03 PM
Sep 2019

If there was proof of what he says in Whistleblower Complaint then don’t you think he wouldn’t be standing in the way of releasing it?
Rachel Maddow has been saying since 1/20/2017, watch his actions, ignore his words.

orleans

(34,053 posts)
19. this article from last year:
Sat Sep 21, 2019, 09:17 PM
Sep 2019

"When we collect information on people overseas we don't use the Constitution," Senator Rand Paul said during a Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill this Wednesday. "So we scoop up all your information, we listen to phone calls everywhere, including [Chancellor of Germany] Angela Merkel, we listen to everybody."

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"Paul, citing news reports from The Washington Post, argued that the president has been recorded multiple times as the agencies attempt to pick up information from influential world leaders. The senator pointed to one article which stated that when Barack Obama was in the Oval Office there were 1,500 occasions where his conversations were gathered by the intelligence community."

https://www.newsweek.com/are-nsa-fbi-listening-trumps-phone-calls-1167924

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